Written Reviews

Barry Unsworth: Sacred Hunger

July 3, 2008

Trevor reviews Barry Unsworth’s Booker Prize winning Sacred Hunger.

Margaret Atwood: Alias Grace

July 3, 2008

Trevor reviews Margaret Atwood’s Giller Prize winning and Booker Prize shortlisted Alias Grace, a novel based on a real murder in the 1850s.

Iris Murdoch: The Sea, the Sea

July 2, 2008

Trevor reviews Iris Murdoch’s Booker Prize winning 1978 novel, The Sea, the Sea.

Imre Kertész: Liquidation

July 1, 2008

Trevor reviews Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertész’s 2003 novel, Liquidation, translated from the Hungarian by Tim Wilkinson.

Salman Rushdie: Midnight’s Children

July 1, 2008

Trevor reviews Salman Rushdie’s masterpiece, Midnight’s Children, as part of 2008’s Best of the Booker shortlist.

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